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Review Summary: WASHED UP RAPPER has evolved into DISCOUNT RONNIE RADKE The circumstances behind Ameer Vann's departure from Brockhampton are pretty out in the open by now, but in case you've been living under a rock let me fill you in: Vann was dismissed due to allegations of sexual misconduct. After going on a musical hiatus, Vann returned essentially out of nowhere with a new EP, Emmanuel. As one takes a look deeper into it, it's pretty clear that there was next to zero effort put into it at all.
Lyrically, Emmanuel is similar to Falling in Reverse's debut The Drug In Me Is You in the sense that it's a diss record towards a former band; the key difference here is that Vann is shockingly farther up his own ass than Ronnie Radke ever was. Every single lyric is more or less a "f**k you" to his former bandmates prefaced with "I" or "n***a"; in essence, this is more or less him freestyling musical crocodile tears for 15 minutes because he clearly didn't bother coming into the studio with lyrics already written as one would usually do. Vann's freestyles feature such classic lyrics such as "I want more s**t in my bank account / I want my granny a bigger house" and "I'ma sing a song of David, I remember Wayne and Baby". The flow is non-existent and he's more or less shouting every line without any emotion. Musically, the entire thing is disjointed; the most glaring example is "Los Angeles", where it suddenly just pauses and enters this bizarre ballad/cloud rap fusion beat (that's the best way I can describe whatever the hell that was), and it shows barely any cohesion. The production is barely better; much like other modern rappers, the producers have an absurd fetish with mixing the bass way too loud to the point where it's actually drowning out the vocals at times, though this might actually be one of the only saving graces of the album due to the sheer insufferability of said vocals.
Emmanuel is a prime example of an artist who's career is in shambles trying to execute a grand comeback only to flop on their face. There's no redeeming quality to any of it. Between Ameer's crocodile tears, the half-assed lyrics, the poor production, the alleged flow and the emotionless delivery of everything, this is more or less a modern Brokencyde album with a washed up boy band rapper on vocals in Se7en's place. Unless you're morbidly curious, you're better off listening to the Saturation trilogy. Avoid.
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Album Rating: 1.0
Album stream can be found on Vann's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYI-CUKxGBhZgzTISQJF3jQ/videos
Found this on accident, decided to check out of morbid curiosity, now we're here. Constructive criticism is welcome, all Brockhampton fanboy flame can be redirected to my shoutbox.
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side note: this was a quick write-up
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christ this was dreadful
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Jesus. This can't really be that bad... can it?
good write up by the way my dude
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Ronnie radke is sick immediate negd
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@Jay: oh it can. It fuckin' can.
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nah it's not that bad but it's not that good either
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"Every single lyric is more or less a "f**k you" to his former bandmates prefaced with "I" or "n***a"; in essence, this is more or less him freestyling musical crocodile tears for 15 minutes because he clearly didn't bother coming into the studio with lyrics already written as one would usually do. Vann's freestyles feature such classic lyrics such as "I want more s**t in my bank account / I want my granny a bigger house" and "I'ma sing a song of David, I remember Wayne and Baby"."
I understand this is hyperbole, but: because you provide no evidence for the first statement, I'm incredibly unconvinced by it; even more so because the lyrics you go on to quote (in support of another point, obviously, but still) clearly undermine the argument that all the lyrics are about the BROCKHAMPTON incident. Likewise, what about the lyrics you quote make you believe they weren't pre-written? Or is this something you know to be the case? (As in, some piece of context I'm unaware of?) Are you saying he came up with them on the spot? That he wrote them in the studio? (Is there something wrong with that? I don't think it's as common as you think) Nevertheless, assuming they are freestyled: is there a problem with that? You don't really explain what you think is wrong with the lyrics you quote, you just snarkily dismiss them.
Also, what do you mean the flow is non-existent? Again, I'll assume you're being hyperbolic, but that feels equivalent to the classic "this isn't music" argument (shout-out Shapiro); clearly this is rap music, clearly there is a flow, I think it's up to you argue why it's a bad flow. You make the point that he's shouting most of his lines, but I can fairly confidently say that's just not the case at all -- just listened to it a couple times, and at no point is he shouting? You use the phrase "more or less" to justify some really hyperbolic statements four times in the review, but I don't think it's an adequate excuse.
I don't mean to be harsh -- I think you're top-notch in terms of your expression, legitimately jealous of how clear and clean your writing is and I think a lot of people could learn from it -- but just like your Billie Eilish review, this feels rushed, substanceless and dismissive. I don't think it's worth engaging with something you don't feel is worth engaging.
Also, are you arguing rappers shouldn't use the words I or nigga? Or that he uses it too much? That'd be easy to dismiss most hip hop, haha. I'll be honest, I don't know what you're getting at there.
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and I oop
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is this some victim blaming bullshit or
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'The project’s title track starts off with him contemplating an apology, although one never exactly arrives:'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v0sQehNm_Q
I guess this is closer isn't it lmao
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the only thing that "saves" this are the beats, which are generic but still decent. I agree with what you're saying lyric wise he went from black tom hanks to black ronnie radke
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Imagine being so white your first thought on hearing this is *woah this is so much like Falling in Reverse* lol
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"You are completely over exaggerating how bad this EP is. It really reads like you made your mind up on Ameer Vann as an artist before you pressed play. I don't see how his allegations (which is all they are allegations) have any gauge on determining the quality of this EP. There are good tracks, flows, and emotion on this EP. Your hyperbolic remarks about the lack of any redeeming qualities on this album remind me of trash Imdb reviews that rate a movie 1 star and state "1 hour 30 minutes wasted!" "
lol there's so much wrong about what you're saying.
first of all allegations are not only allegations, I mean I get what you're saying because the world status on them, but in this case, when there have been consequences, and nobody except the people that took part on the situation know what REALLY happened, and we never have been confirmed of that, calling it "just allegations" is just talking bs. And also because of those and some other reasons that Ameer confessed to the group, is why he's put under the spotlight on this EP because people are looking whether or not he's going to redeem himself, ask for forgiveness, or something else. And he didn't do it and in fact he did the complete opposite so, yeah, kind of a silly comparative between these and shitty imdb reviews, and overall I see why so many people are so disappointed
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"It really reads like you made your mind up on Ameer Vann as an artist before you pressed play."
Not really I thought he was pretty meh in Brockhampton after I gave them a few spins before the Ameer shit came out
As for Blushful: My argument with the use of "I" and the N word is that he uses it so much that it just feels like he took the lazy way out; like "fuck it, i'm too lazy to write anything else". As for the lyrics being pre-written, again it just feels like he was too lazy so he just improvised random crap hoping it sounded good. Nothing wrong with writing in the studio, but in this case it just felt like he phoned it in.
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"Imagine being so white your first thought on hearing this is *woah this is so much like Falling in Reverse* lol"
race has absolutely no correlation to what people compare music to
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I mean I agree that this is bland af but the review reads as if you didn’t even listen to the EP because “aBuSeR”, pulled up the lyrics on genius, concocted what you thought this EP was gonna be in your mind and reviewed that. Like there are so many things said in this review that flat out don’t even make sense.
Also I don’t how you thought this EP was a diss to Brockhampton lmao. Anytime he brings them up or alludes to them it sounds to me like he’s pretty regretful and wishes things could go back to the way they were.
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'race has absolutely no correlation to what people compare music to'
*buzzer sound* 'The Price is Right incorrect theme plays'
| | | Album Rating: 3.5
I thought this was pretty solid. Could use some better production for sure but overall its good for what it is. Pop Trunk and Glock 19 both slap.
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Strip away the context from this individual and you get some okay rapping with some decent hooks over a couple great beats. Evens out to a 2-2.5 for me.
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